At the current stage, the average amount of data generated by the human world every day is about one trillion gigabytes. This data is either a photo, a movie, a piece of music, an email, a text message, a voice message, and so on.

In this information age, human beings have truly become digital individuals. The Internet has truly become one of the most important infrastructures.

The Global Internet Information Monitoring Center was established based on this reality. Its purpose is to ensure the orderly operation of the Internet and escort it.

Its responsibilities are many, very complex, and intersect with almost any government department. For example, collecting information on violations and crimes, monitoring changes in certain data, etc.

Monitoring changes in public opinion is, of course, one of its responsibilities.

At this moment, Lu Ming came here and met with a supervisor surnamed Ma.

He is one of the heads of the public opinion monitoring department of the Internet Information Monitoring Center.

When Lu Ming showed his ID, Director Ma's attitude became more and more enthusiastic.

It is rare to see a sheriff of such a level at such a young age as Lu Ming.

"Sergeant Lu, hello, hello."

After greeting him warmly, Lu Ming was taken to his office by Director Ma.

After explaining his intentions, Director Ma immediately patted his chest and agreed, and immediately made arrangements.

Not long after, a young man with unkempt hair and glasses walked in.

"This is a technical engineer in the AI department. Xiao Li, you cooperate with Sergeant Lu to screen out the information that Sergeant Lu needs to him. ”

"Yes."

"AI department?"

Lu Ming was slightly puzzled.

Seeing that Lu Ming didn't know much about this, the engineer named Xiao Li explained: "Public opinion monitoring is such a thing, and it is impossible to accomplish it by manpower alone. There are billions of active Internet users in the world, and the information generated every day is massive.

Based on this, we have developed and trained an AI system that monitors the entire Internet at all times and preliminarily screens out things that have the potential to become hot events. Well, this step can filter out up to 99.9999% of the candidates.

Judging from the past data, its error rate is very low. Even if the first step is wrong, it can still make timely adjustments according to the subsequent development. Overall, the hit rate can be considered 100 percent.

After that, depending on the nature of the event, we can make the next decision, whether to ignore it and let it develop, or add fuel to the fire, or reduce the heat, whichever is convenient.

This system can also intelligently analyze whether there are other forces in a certain event that are secretly pushing to achieve what purpose. If it's a normal commercial propaganda behavior, then ignore it, and if there is any shady scheme, it will be handed over to your security department for disposal. ”

This engineer named Xiao Li is obviously a technical nerd, and when it comes to his own field at this moment, he immediately gushes endlessly. Director Ma, who listened, was slightly embarrassed and wanted to stop it, but seeing that Lu Ming was also listening attentively, he had to endure it.

"Awesome."

After listening to Engineer Li's explanation, Lu Ming was heartily amazed. Immediately, he had another doubt: "There is so much data generated by the Internet every day, even if there are only 0.0001% of events, the number should be a lot." What about these things? ”

Engineer Li scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and brought a little dandruff to the wind: "This can't be helped, our AI is not a real person after all, and its intelligence is limited." The rest of this can only be reviewed and paid attention to manually. ”

Director Ma smiled dryly: "The manual review department has the most personnel in the public opinion monitoring department. Okay, don't talk about this, Xiao Li, this matter will be handed over to you, you must do it well. ”

"No problem."

Director Ma left in a hurry. Engineer Li invited: "Sergeant Lu, you can go to our public opinion monitoring hall to have a look. ”

"Don't be so polite, just call me Lu Ming."

Together, the two of them went to a higher floor. Xiao Li pushed open a door, and immediately, a huge room like a large movie theater came into his eyes.

On this side of the hall, there are rows of office seats, which are divided into hundreds of small areas, each of which is occupied by seven or eight people. People are staring at their computer screens and tapping quickly on their keyboards, or they are discussing something with each other.

At the end of the hall is a giant screen larger than a movie theater screen. It shows a huge map of the world, countless data in the corners of the map are flashing rapidly, and there are countless red dots flashing in different parts of the map.

The red dots are large and small, and they flicker at different frequencies. Among them, Lu Ming saw the most huge red dot at a glance.

"What's that?"

Xiao Li looked at it on the smart watch, and said stupidly: "Star A and star B officially announced their love, star C publicly claimed that star B abandoned him from the beginning, star A ridiculed each other, claiming that star C's girlfriend backstabbed, and star B claimed that his original intention was the same......"

"Stop, stop."

Lu Ming only felt that his head was messed up by this complicated relationship, and quickly stopped Xiao Li: "That's it? Is the heat so high? ”

Xiao Li said stupidly: "It's not." At present, monitoring shows that a total of more than 100 million people have expressed their opinions on this matter, and there are more than 10,000 hot topics about this matter on major forums, blogs, and social software, and an average of tens of billions of gigabytes of data about this matter are generated every day......"

Lu Ming was speechless: "This, you're full, right?" ”

"Isn't it, the people who eat melons have eaten melons until they ...... up."

At the current stage, this incident occupies the top spot of public opinion by an overwhelming margin. For the rest of the hot spots, Lu Ming took a rough look and saw such as a certain celebrity's birthday party, a certain celebrity's finger scratched a small cut at the filming scene, and was rushed to the hospital......

"So many resources, just waste on this kind of thing."

Lu Ming felt a little sorry at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was the normal state of society.

The fact that ordinary people can waste their energy on this kind of thing can at least prove that their lives are still good at this stage.

If you can't even get by, no one is too lazy to invest a little energy in this kind of thing.

Isn't this the source of motivation for myself and my teammates to struggle?

After having a general understanding of the workflow of the Internet Information Monitoring Center, under the leadership of Xiao Li, Lu Ming came to a special conference room, where several people were already waiting in advance.

"This is Sergeant Lu of the Public Security Bureau, and there are some things that we need to cooperate with. Director Ma ordered me to take charge of the matter. ”

Xiao Li made some introductions and looked at Lu Ming: "What are the information screening criteria?" ”

Lu Ming first said hello, and then told a few screening criteria that had been prepared for a long time.

"First, it may be more explicit to confirm that it is not intentional to do so, or alternatively, there may be a clearer way to rule out the suspicion of intentional intention.

Second, it has the potential to become, or has become a hot topic. According to your grading standards, well...... Probably at level 3 or above.

Third, the relevant scientific or engineering fields belong to science and engineering, not literature and history.

Well, if you're not sure, leave it to me. ”

After discussing for a while, several people understood what they needed to do, and they dispersed.

Among them, Xiao Li is responsible for adding filtering rules to the AI and completing the preliminary screening. Subsequently, events with a high probability of suspicion will be further manually screened by the remaining individuals. If it is still uncertain, it will be reported to Lu Ming, and Lu Ming will complete the final confirmation.

This set of processes is set, and the follow-up work is carried out immediately.

Originally, Lu Ming thought that it might take a while for a message that met the standards to be reported to him, but he didn't expect that the first message was sent before it was evening.

"When a man passed by the glass door of the xx shopping mall, the glass door suddenly exploded, causing the man to suffer multiple injuries on his body and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The security department has cordoned off the scene and started the investigation. ”

Accompanying this message, there is also a GIF. So Lu Ming saw that a man didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone, he was walking his own way, and when he passed a glass door, the door suddenly exploded, and the man was miserable.

"This news is not widely circulated at the moment, but it has the potential to become a hot topic."

A staff member explained to Lu Ming: "In daily life, passing by a glass door is very common, which means that every ordinary person may suffer an accident such as a glass door bursting. This will lead to a strong sense of empathy and substitution among the public, and they will pay attention to it. When there are more people, a hot news is formed. ”

Without going through professional testing, Lu Ming had basically guessed several possible reasons for the explosion of the glass door. It is nothing more than the quality of the glass is not up to par, the pressure of the door frame is too large, the uneven force, the alternating hot and cold expansion and contraction, or the previous accidental damage.

This kind of thing is also a pure accident. The glass manufacturing industry involved in it also belongs to science and engineering rather than literature and history.

From these aspects, there is no doubt that this message is up to par.

Lu Ming pondered for a moment and made a decision.

Leave it in doubt, continue to observe, and see if it can become a real hot event in the future.

There are many decisive factors for whether a matter can become a hot event.

The Internet world is also a chaotic place, full of all kinds of randomness. Some people will become popular unexpectedly because of an accidental event, and some people will try their best but will not become popular for a long time, and various situations may occur.

This incident only has the potential to become a hot event, but it has not really become a hot event.

Lu Ming did not inform Zhang Dingshan and the others of this matter. Because he didn't think the covert organization would have predicted this event.

This matter, after all, is too "small". Judging from the usual style of the covert organization, it doesn't look like it's going to pay attention to such a small thing.

Shortly thereafter, another message passed the screening.

The wall of a building fell off, and one of the walls happened to hit a stroller downstairs, seriously injuring a baby, and is currently being resuscitated in the hospital.

This incident has greater potential to become a hot event. Various indicators also point to the fact that in about a few hours, the various data of this event will reach its peak.

This is also understandable. After all, cute babies are the ones that can touch people's hearts the most. And the wall falling off can often be associated with things like the tofu slag project, which can also touch people's anger. Combined, it's no surprise that this matter has become a hot topic.

But again, this incident is still a little too "small".

In the end, Lu Ming still decided to continue to pay attention and did not report it.

And then there was the third event.

A fire broke out in a machinery factory, and three people have been confirmed dead. A large number of firefighters are at the scene to rescue and rescue the disaster. Many people on the Internet are paying attention to this matter.

Lu Ming pondered for a moment, and finally decided to rule out this matter.

This time the incident is not small, and there is a certain possibility of random accidents. But strictly speaking, a fire is most likely to be caused by operational errors, aging equipment, and the like. In other words, it is closely related to people.

Being closely related to people means that there is almost non-existent, or it is difficult to completely exclude the human factor.

When it comes to artificiality, it leads to a much less effective prophecy.

After the third time, it was the fourth......

The intensive information reporting did not stop until late at night.

For several hours, Lu Ming has been checking the information, making the decision to eliminate suspicion or continue to pay attention to doubts, and then there is a second message, sometimes it is slow to read, and there will even be a backlog of information.

This made Lu Ming's head always in a state of high-speed operation.

Finally there was a gap, Lu Ming raised his head a little dazedly and looked at the night sky outside the window.

"Is the end of the world coming?"

At this moment, he had such a strong question in his heart.

Why are there so many things in this world? Either there is a disaster here, or there is a fire, either there are dead people here, or there is a car accident there, why is there no time to stop?

If it wasn't for the end of the world coming, how could it be so messy?

That's it, or after layers of review, it was finally reported to myself. The number of things that have been screened before is even greater.

But the night sky is still quiet. Outside the window, the lights are neon, and it is peaceful.

Lu Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Xiao Li walked over, and the bags under his eyes seemed to be more obvious: "Sergeant Lu, rest first, things can't be seen, and there will always be new things." ”

"Okay."

Lu Ming sighed.

Although it was late at night, it was daylight in the other hemisphere. The frequency of these things is still not decreasing.

Lu Ming had to go to rest. When I woke up, it was another busy day. And so on until three days later.